Speech Sounds: Five Sonic Stories
Speech Sounds is a 5-part audio-series showcasing sound artists, griots and poets working while engaging in a conversation around memory and culture for those within the African diaspora. Speech Sounds is an independent project of Hush Harbour Press.More info: hushharbour.com/speechsounds
Speech Sounds: Five Sonic Stories
Episode 1: The Art of Listening
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Season 1
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Episode 1
Spoken word is an ancient form, a Black form, with origins from our ancestral storytellers—spoken word emerged from Black jazz poets, using African riffs, rhythmics, and beats to accompany the core of the stories being told.
In “The Art of Listening”, we talk about how listening and being listened to is critical for Black thought, counterculture, revolution, and myth-making. Drawing on its predecessors dub, jazz, toasting, beat, hip hop, protest, and more, this episode is a sonic adventure in honour of the everyday poet.
Featuring Mahlikah the Moonrise Poet and Michie Mee
See hushharbour.com/speechsounds for more details